The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to study biological and social factors for why three-quarters of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not, calling it an issue of high public-health significance."

Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, Mass., has received two grants administered by NIHs Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study the relationship between sexual orientation and obesity.

Obesity is one of the most critical public health issues affecting the U.S. today, the description of the grant reads. Racial and socioeconomic disparities in the determinants, distribution, and consequences of obesity are receiving increasing attention.

the study will conclude that it’s the white christian male dominant society in which we live that don’t accept their lifestyle. therefore, because of ALL the vicious criticism lesbians eat to much to heal the pain. solution, pass new legislation, under obamacare, making it a crime for anyone to be critical of a lesbian’s lifestyle. sound ridiculous?

I guess in real life ALL lesbians do not look like Halle Berry, Catherine Bell, Tiffany Amber Theissen, and such.

There was a Saturday Night Live sketch where some frat boys had one wish left from a genie and wanted to see two hot lesbians getting it on. Unfortunately the one making the wish left out the word "hot" and got the comfortable shoes, flannel shirt very butch type. Oops.

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posted on 03/12/2013 2:31:28 PM PDT
by KarlInOhio
(Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)

While I was in college I worked as a low level coder for a NIH study where the department I was in wanted to know about the sex lives of people who live in nursing homes.

It cost the American people $400,000 (in 1980 dollars) and they wanted to find out two things:

1.) How many homosexuals there were in nursing homes.

2.) They wanted to establish a need where 'two people' would be able to have a room where they could go and have sex.

I was a coder which meant I had to read ALL of the answers of everyone who had been asked questions.

First of all, they found only one guy who admitted that he was "queer," however he refused to answer the sex questionnaire so he had to be eliminated from the study. So, statistically they found NO homosexuals or lesbians.

But, since I was reading all of the answers and was preparing them for the computer, I noticed that the biggest response from the women regarding sex was essentially, "My sex life died when my husband did. I don't even think about that stuff anymore."

I asked one of the Phd's conducting the study why they decided to do this study and he said, I kid you not, he told me that they wanted to establish a need where they could take the results to the state legislature and get a bill passed where every nursing home in the state would be mandated to have a room set aside where 'two people' could go and have sex.

At that point I looked at him and said to myself, "I don't know who the hell you are, but I know for damn sure I am nothing like you." Turns out he was a flaming liberal.

For all their careful planning and their waste of $400,000 they could not establish a need for a mandated sex room in every nursing home. And, the department ended up being sued by some of the children who's parents were asked such indelicate questions.

And, it was a real waste of your tax dollars.

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posted on 03/12/2013 2:43:35 PM PDT
by Slyfox
(Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness -G Wash.)

Actually that’s not true. The main reason men drop out of the dating pool is alcohol / Drug problem or financial issues. The main reason woman drop out is obesity....they have a couple of kids and let themselves go.

As always, the entire premise of the question is wrong...
The question is not “Why are so many lesbians fat?”
The question, of course is “Why are so many Fat women lesbians?”.
And for just half the amount of grant money I can tell you why.

There probably is no other objective to this study than to give employment to some fat lesbians in academia. Much of what the government spends is just to give money to people who are too proud to beg and are not gainfully employabe within a free market.

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